WB to fund $455m irrigation project [Project will also support smallholder producers to adopt new conservation technologies SRI and SSI which reduce average water usage by 35 per cent and increase yields by 22 per cent per hectare.]
December 16, 2017, The Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)

System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Nepal [World Neighbors work in Mahadevsthan Village, Kavre show average SRI yields 30% higher (as high as 62%); will now introduce to Udaypur].
October 18, 2017, Kathmandu Tribune (Nepal)

Tanzania goes for Climate Smart Agriculture [Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Development said that urgent action was needed to build resilience to climate impacts.. need to make farmers aware of the need to adopt water harvesting means, water storage investments and adoption of SRI by smallholder farmers .]
September 2017, AllAfrica (Tanzania) [similar article in East African Business News]

Profitable crop combination in a small farm [SRI farmers in Isabella province who quadrupled rice production with SRI to plant next season's SRI crop in January. They are now expanding to other crops.]
August 30, 2017, Manila Bulletin (Philippines)

Shwebo Pawsan to be cultivated with SRI in mid July [ 20 acres of paddy fields in Shwebo Township, 10 acres in Tabayin Township, 10 acres in Ye-U Township and 10 acres in Wetlet Township to be planted with SRI by United Nilar Agribusiness Co. Ltd. and the Sagaing Region Agricultural Department.]
June 22, 2017, Global New Light of Myanmar (Myanmar)

Seedlings sowed at Singur site
January 26, 2017, The Times of India (West Bengal, India) [5 months after the Supreme Court ordered the Singur land returned to its owners, Boro seedlings, were planted with SRI on 200 acres Gopalnagar.]

2017?. Small changes can make a difference. European Commission website.[Lao PDR project by European Commission's International Cooperation and Development describes the SRS system that is derived from SRI.]

*Rai, Vijay. 2017. Farmers turn to organic farming in Bundelkhand. Welthungerhilfe website. November 23. [Story of System of Vegetable Intensification (SVI) in a Welthungerhilfe-funded project Kapuriya, a tribal village in the district of Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh.]

2017. Female-led Enterprise & Agribusiness Development. SNV website. July. [.. Climate Smart practices in Vietnam also can include soil conservation efforts like SRI (System of Rice Intensification) that SNV and their EOWE programme advocate for and apply in Vietnam, which in many circumstances may greatly decrease women’s time spent on weeding and other (rice) farming tasks..]

2017? Kingabwa Rice Intensification Project phase II (PIRK II) - 2015-2018. EUCORD website. [Description of a four year project centered on SRI in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Thus far, this USAID-funded EUCORD project has leveled 72 ha of land, installed a water pump for controlled irrigation and trained over 1,200 farmers in SRI and other practices and provided them with technology packets.]

Plummer, Lucy. 2017. A pioneer in climate change action, Odisha will now help others prepare for natural disasters!The Better India website. June 8. [Odisha was one of the first states to begin work on a Climate Change Action Plan in 2009 and in 2010 it officially became the pioneering state. Under the first phase of the plan, several initiatives centered around preparing for a disaster were set in action, including promotion of SRI, livelihood diversification.....]

2016. SRI 4 Women (System of Rice Intensification) project. Engim Internazionale website. December 16. [One-Word SILC group in Foredugu, a group comprising only of women, are engaged in SRI and are transplanting (NERICA L19) in their demonstration plot at Foredugu town in Buya Romende Chiefdom pf Sierra Leone.]

Solomon, Philippa. 2017. How farmers can help reduce famine. Capital Press. March 23. ["In the long term we also need to support the spread of improved cultivation techniques such as the system of rice intensification (SRI) and to reduce and manage the risks from warming of the global climate."]

SNV. 2017. Let’s get to work - Building a food secure future. SNV website. March. [Between 2016 and 2020 SNV, a Dutch NGO, is upscaling the uptake of SRI in Vietnam under the ‘Enhancing Opportunities for Women’s Enterprises’ programme. this was highlighted at an Regional Food Security Conference put on by the Govt.s of the Netherlands and Vietnam on March 22-23, in Hanoi, Vietnam]

Bimba, Robert. 2017. The Japanese Rice Grant Project: Economic recovery of Liberian rice farmers in Ebola-affected counties --Status report November 2016 – January 15, 2017. SRI-Rice website. (report of a rice project financed by the Japanese Govt. to extend rice production in five countries in [uploaded January 18, 2017]

Video: 2017 (June 8). AWD/SRI for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production. 1:2-:43 min. Produced by the Water in Agriculture Global Solutions Group, World Bank. [Video of the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series webinar on Alternative Wetting and Drying (AWD) and the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Techniques for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production.] [accessed July 2017]

Video: 2017 (March 22).
FAO, Tanzania Govt train 150 youth farmers in rice farming, life skills. 2:22 min. Emmanuel Kihaule channel, YouTube. [Swahili language ITV program explains that 150 youth have been trained in SRI and the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) approach under the Partnership for Sustainable Rice System Development in Africa project, financed by the Government of Venezuela through FAO under South South Cooperation and is implemented by the Government of United Republic of Tanzania through Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries.]

Video: 2017 (February 14). Liberia Boosts Its Rice Production. 4:47 min. CNN channel. YouTube. [A CNN production about those who are promoting local rice production and sales, including the CHAP, an NGO promoting SRI.]

Witkowski, Kelly. 2017. CSA through SRI: Too Good to be True? 21 slides. Presentation at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Association for International Agriculture & Rural Development (AIARD), Washington, DC in early June 4-6, 2017. [Accessed August 3, 2017]

Toure, Abdoulaye, and Gaoussou Traore. 2017. Mainstreaming of SRI/AWD in WAAPP. 30 slides. Presentation at the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series, World Bank, Washington DC, June 8, 2017. [See ALL presentations in this event] [accessed July 2017]

Fisher, Lucy. 2017. Global, National, and Regional SRI Networks. 21 slides. Presentation at the Regional Review and Planning Workshop on Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum from Innovation and around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong Rive Basic (SRI-LMB), Hanoi, Vietnam, April 23-25, 2017

Rasquinha, Vijay. 2017. Saving 200 billion litres of water by 2020. 11 slides. Presentation at the Geospatial World Forum, Hyderabad, India, February 23-25. [Project intended to help 6300 canal-irrigated paddy farmers in 180 villages in of Raichur and Koppal districts to shift from a water-intensive flood irrigation regime to a rationale
use of canal water through ICM Integrated crop management, comprising both NPM (Non-Pesticidal Management) and SRI. This should save 200 billion litres of canal water by 2020.]